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[Steam] A Classy Christmas II; Day Seventeen Total: $7,197.90

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Bought 10 holiday backgrounds that were selling at minimum price, worth 100 gems a piece.
You can then pack your gems into sacks of 1000 in your Inventory and sell those sacks off on the market if you want too.....crazy

The Gems remain after the auction ends.
They can be used to create booster packs.

And now I'm considering it. I have lots of things That sit there. I am not bidding, but maybe make gems. make booster packs. Sell cards. Hum... I just removed all my listings. And the market warned me I need to get tax info to Steam. Um, I sell to many items it seams.

Basically it's going to be people buying up mass quantities of cheap items to turn into gems, which they will then use to swoop in at last minute on auctions to greatly outbid everyone, then turn their game into trade bait for other stuff.

Well, I think I'd rather have the 5 bucks from all my cards. That Holiday profile would be nice, but there's no way I could get one. Newer cards are worth more than the old ones, I might have 1500 gems.

Not sure what to think of that. The collector in me is hesitant to burn much in the way of backgrounds or emotes even though I rarely ever use them.
I wonder what, if anything happens when the sale begins.

Yeah, I'm a little torn as well. I don't want to get rid of all of the backgrounds and emotes that I've collected, even though I've never used any of the emotes even once and thanks to the previous sale meta games I have a lot of them that are worth 100 gems.

It would be a non factor as I have no interest in bidding for games, I'd rather just buy them outright and avoid the hassle. But the idea of converting excess gems into booter packs on the other hand...

Not sure what to think of that. The collector in me is hesitant to burn much in the way of backgrounds or emotes even though I rarely ever use them.
I wonder what, if anything happens when the sale begins.

Yeah, I'm a little torn as well. I don't want to get rid of all of the backgrounds and emotes that I've collected, even though I've never used any of the emotes even once and thanks to the previous sale meta games I have a lot of them that are worth 100 gems.

It would be a non factor as I have no interest in bidding for games, I'd rather just buy them outright and avoid the hassle. But the idea of converting excess gems into booter packs on the other hand...

I'm waiting until the booster pack page acutally works to find out the mechanics before finally doing everything.

I'm holding onto my "1 of everything" emoticons, but I'm going to burn a TON of backgrounds - I only keep ones I might actually use.

Not sure what to think of that. The collector in me is hesitant to burn much in the way of backgrounds or emotes even though I rarely ever use them.
I wonder what, if anything happens when the sale begins.

Yeah, I'm a little torn as well. I don't want to get rid of all of the backgrounds and emotes that I've collected, even though I've never used any of the emotes even once and thanks to the previous sale meta games I have a lot of them that are worth 100 gems.

It would be a non factor as I have no interest in bidding for games, I'd rather just buy them outright and avoid the hassle. But the idea of converting excess gems into booter packs on the other hand...

I'm waiting until the booster pack page acutally works to find out the mechanics before finally doing everything.

I'm holding onto my "1 of everything" emoticons, but I'm going to burn a TON of backgrounds - I only keep ones I might actually use.

In the week prior to the summer sale, you didn't get points for your teams. I crafted one badge and didn't get gems for crafting, but I expect you'll end up getting like....10 gems for crafting a normal, 100 for crafting a foil, or something like that.

Your list shows Anomaly cards as worth 6 with the foil being 60.
My Warlock cards are worth 10 gems; the foil is 100.
And Dungeons of Dredmor are worth 13; the foil is 130.

so that's probably a reasonable assumption at this point.

and someone was saying the more recent cards are worth more, but that's easily disproved: Advent Rising very recently got cards and those are only worth 14, while something like Bastion gives 32 gems per pop.

Your list shows Anomaly cards as worth 6 with the foil being 60.
My Warlock cards are worth 10 gems; the foil is 100.
And Dungeons of Dredmor are worth 13; the foil is 130.

so that's probably a reasonable assumption at this point.

and someone was saying the more recent cards are worth more, but that's easily disproved: Advent Rising very recently got cards and those are only worth 14, while something like Bastion gives 32 gems per pop.

I would bet it has more to do with scarcity of the card. I'm sure valve has a database, they just mine, how many of card x exist in all locations? And weight for that.

Are any of the third party sites going to have a better auction browser up in time? Life is too short to go through 133 pages looking for stuff to bid on, without any ratings. At least Steam Enhanced got the wishlist & library items marked really quickly (pretty sure it wasn't working 30 minutes ago, but it is now).